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Video: ONTV's Reem Maged on Egyptian Media and the Military (Arabic)
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Meet the Media with ONTV's Reem Maged The Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism hosted its second Meet the Media discussion of the semester on Wednesday, 28 March 2012. The discussion featured Reem Maged, host of ONTV’s Baladna Bel Masry. The discussion was titled “The Media and the Military: A Closer Look at the Relationship.” Moderator Hafez Al Mirazi, director of the Adham Center and host of Dream 2’s Cairo Time, started off by showing the ...
Keep Reading »A Year in the Life of Egypt's Media: A 2011 Timeline [Updated]
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[This timeline is part of a series on Egypt's media after Mubarak. Click here to read "Free at Last?"] FEBRUARY 10: Thousands of protesters converge from different areas in Cairo and Alexandria on the Ministry of Defense and the Northern Military Area, respectively. Demonstrators called for an immediate end to military rule and set up a screening of online-to-offline campaign Kazeboon's (Liars) videos in front of the ministry to showcase violations ...
Keep Reading »Free at Last? Charting Egypt's Media Post-Mubarak
![[Egyptian Armed Forces outside the Egyptian state television and radio building. Image from Almasry Alyoum.]](/content_images/3/sm_Egypttvradioarmy.jpg "[Egyptian Armed Forces outside the Egyptian state television and radio building. Image from Almasry Alyoum.]")
Old Habits Die Hard On the morning of 12 February, Al-Ahram, the Egyptian national newspaper and the publication with the widest distribution in the Arab world, ran a headline over its banner declaring: “The People Have Toppled the Regime.” Like the rest of the government-run media, both print and broadcast, throughout the eighteen days of protest in January and February 2011, Al-Ahram’s coverage of events was replete with misinformation, disinformation, incitement, and ...
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Adel Iskandar is a scholar of Arab studies whose research focuses on media and communication. He is the author and coauthor of several works including Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism (Basic Books). Iskandar's work deals with media, identity and politics and has lectured extensively on these topics at universities worldwide. His latest publication is an edited volume entitled Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation (University of California Press). His two forthcoming works are books on the role of new media and dissidence in the Arab world. Iskandar teaches at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the Communication, Culture and Technology program at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
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